HAWAII...The great people on our cruise

Our group consisted of five missionary couples from Heber Valley Camp:

Elder and Sister Johnson - Darrell and Ethel

Elder and Sister Davis - Clair and Linda

Elder and Sister Cole - Roger and Deon

Elder and Sister Felter - Gary and Suzanne

Elder and Sister Conlin - Reed and Kathy

Plus: two friends of Ethel Johnson and

Friends of the Coles: Skip and Judy

We were just 14 of the 1408 guests on the ship. We had a great time!

Ethel, Linda and Clair on the Lido Deck purchasing soft drink cards shortly after we arrived.

Gary and Suzanne enjoying a laugh while waiting for our rooms to be ready.

Darrell, Ethel, Linda, Clair, Gary, Suzanne and me staking out the best seats in the Mondriaan Lounge for the first night's performance.

Every night right after dinner we went directly to the Mondriaan Lounge for the night's entertainment. We saw some great shows. One of Ethel's friends is in front of her.

Suzanne and Judy




Looking good in the chef's hats. Each night we had two tables side by side reserved for us. Our waiter's name was Mac. We especially enjoyed the Dining Room Manager, William. He brought us extra appetizers each night...large cocktail shrimp on a bed of lettuce.

The Trivia Team
We took turns sitting out of the game as six teammembers was the maximum allowed. We never won but we learned alot. Many of the activities (bingo, trivia, all the performances etc.) were held in this same place.

That is Maui in the background. We had to take tenders to go ashore. Maui is the only Hawaiian island I had visited before. Reed had also been to Oahu.

Roger and Deon celebrated their 50th anniversary on the cruise!

One of the van drivers/tour guides took a group photo of us.

Looking somber at Pearl Harbor

Sometimes we went places as a group and other times we split up. The 'other half' of our group purchased on shore excursions from the cruise line for each stop we made. We found things much cheaper when we made arrangements on our own. Besides that, many of the 'fun' activities were things we had previously done and didn't feel the need to do them again. The main idea was to get out of the cold winter weather for as long as we could with great company, great food and great entertainment.

While at Heber Valley Camp, each of the young women groups had a theme for their camp. FBI was printed on some of the girls' hoodies. It stood for "Forever Be Immovable." In January we were in Mexico and there were lots of T-shirts with FBI emblazoned on them. Upon closer inspection we found it was for "Female Body Inspector." In Hawaii, FBI meant "From Big Island."